Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 67
Each helped himself as he liked best, and to each two were twelve dishes, with great plenty of beer and wine.
Who acts: Each, plenty · What happens: help, like, be · To what, where: plenty, best, two twelve dishes
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, plenty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 helped | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 liked | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 liked | nsubj |
| 6 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 helped | advcl |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 liked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dishes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dishes | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 two | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dishes | nummod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dishes | cop |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 dishes | nummod |
| 15 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 helped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plenty | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 plenty | case |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plenty | amod |
| 19 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dishes | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 beer | case |
| 21 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plenty | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wine | cc |
| 23 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beer | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Each | plenty | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | like | past | plenty | best | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | two twelve dishes and great plenty of beer and wine | great plenty of beer and wine conj | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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